Two Russian Spies Charged in Massive Yahoo Hack

Federal authorities have charged four men, one of whom was taken into custody Tuesday in Canada

U.S. authorities charged four men on Wednesday, including two officers at Russia’s spy agency, with the Yahoo Inc. hacks that compromised the personal data of hundreds of millions of users, including the accounts of U.S. and Russian officials, business leaders and journalists. Photo: AP.

Russian government spies were behind Yahoo Inc.’s notorious 2014 security breach, stealing information about more than a half billion online accounts, including those used by U.S. military officials and by employees of firms in banking, finance and transportation, federal authorities said Wednesday.

The Justice Department announced the indictments of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev and Igor Anatolyevich Sushchin, officers of Russia’s Federal Security Service, known as the FSB, alleging they directed and paid for the illegal...